European Regional Science Association

ERSA 2003 Congress

Papers

Ordered by papernumber - R-session papers only

• The Role of Structural Funds in Developing Learning Regions (1)
• Capitalising the Value of Free Schools: The Impact of Supply Constraints and Uncertainty (8)
• Debreu’s Coefficient of Resource Utilization, the Solow Residual, and TFP: The Connection by Leontief Preferences (9)
• Competition and Performance: The Different Roles of Capital and Labor (10)
• The vintage effect in TFP-growth: An analysis of the age structure of capital (11)
• Size effect on survivability of SMEs based on the survival index value (SIV) model (14)
• Re-investment, Survival and the Embeddedness of Foreign-Owned Plants (19)
• Participatory democracy and urban governance in France: Are they still utopian views? (22)
• Regional differences in unemployment: the case of Croatia (25)
• Tax shape, debt and electoral opportunism at the municipal level: French empirical evidence and a model (28)
• Effects of Transport Improvements on Commuting and Residential Choice (29)
• Population Potentials and Development Levels: Empirical Findings in the European Union (30)
• Economic and Political Perspectives on Integration in the Baltic Sea Region (31)
• The micro-level dynamics of regional productivity growth: The source of divergence in Finland (32)
• Financing Swedish Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Methods, Problems and Impact (34)
• Regional Industrial Deconcentration In Brazil (1985 – 1998) (38)
• Pricing, Capacity Choice and Financing in Transportation Networks (41)
• A Test Strategy for Spurious Spatial Regression, Spatial Nonstationarity, and Spatial Cointegration (42)
• Productive Capital and Technical Efficiency in the UE-15 (43)
• Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities (44)
• Retail Macro-location Factors: Empirical Evidence from the Portuguese Shopping Centres (45)
• Toward a unified Europe? Explaining cultural differences by economic development, cultural heritage and historical shocks (50)
• Sustainable business - A way to implement new jobs? (59)
• Urban and Hinterland Evolution under Growing Population Pressure (60)
• High-speed railway developments and corporate location decisions. The role of accessibility (61)
• Innovations in Transportation: research and policy lessons of recent successful cases (65)
• Spurious Zipf's Law (67)
• Determining the impact of economic activiy in Asturias on greenhouse gas emissions (69)
• What to Expect of the Euro? Analysing Price Differences of Individual Products in Luxembourg and its Surrounding Regions (70)
• ICT cluster developments in European cities during the 1990's: developoment patterns and policy lessons (73)
• Urban Broadband Internet Policies in Europe: A Critical Review (76)
• Road pricing from a geographical perspective: a literature review and implications for research into accessibility (77)
• Health networks : an innovation in the territorial offer of medical cares in France (78)
• The European Monetary Union and the Regional Inequalities (79)
• Spatial Externalities and Local Economic Growth (81)
• Interregional Migration in Romania during the 1990s (86)
• Macroeconomy of the Russian regions – neighboring with the New European Union (88)
• Decomposing the Dynamics of Regional Earnings Disparities in Israel (90)
• Agro-food manufacturing in Mediterranean Spanish regions: Andalusia versus Valencian region (93)
• Delivering Job Search Services for Unemployed People in Rural Areas: the Role of ICT (94)
• Introduction of Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics in Croatia (96)
• Technical Change, Productivity and Economic Growth (98)
• The Impact of Optimal Tariffs and Taxes on Agglomeration (102)
• Constraints and possibilities of the rural tourism development with the special stress on the case of Croatia (105)
• Structural Path Analysis: Applications to Structural Changes in the Andalusian economy (1990-1999) (109)
• Industrial agglomerations and wage gradients: the Spanish economy in the interwar period (113)
• Assignment techniques on Virtual Networks. Performance considerations on large multi-modal networks (115)
• Using fractal dimensions for characterizing intra-urban diversity. The example of Brussels (116)
• Domestic Market Fragmentation and Economic Growth in China (117)
• Estimating trade flows between Portuguese regions using an Input-output approach (118)
• Distance decay in activity chains analysis. A Belgian case study (119)
• Spatial urban restructuring for economic growth with distribution: The case of Ceara (Brazil) (120)
• Why is Central Paris loosing jobs? (122)
• The Dynamics of Export Specialisation in the Regions of the Italian Mezzogiorno: Persistence and Change (123)
• Macroeconomic Effects of Catalan Fiscal Deficit with the Spanish State (2002-2010) (128)
• The Export Activity of Spanish Manufacturing Firms: Does Innovation Matter? (129)
• Development and Application of an Activity Based Space-Time Accessibility Measure for Individual Activity Schedules (137)
• Usage of experience of development of territories with similar socio-economic characteristics taken as a whole as an instrument of Kronshtadt sustainable development (143)
• Isn't small beautiful? (146)
• Protectionism and industry localization in Chinese provinces (147)
• Provincial Migration Dynamics in China: Borders, centripetal forces and trade (148)
• The Economic Activity in Lisbon. Structural axis and squares (150)
• Evaluation of Local Development Strategies and Process of Their Implementation in the Silesia Region (155)
• Human Capital Accumulation and Migration in a Peripheral EU Region: the Case of Basilicata (157)
• Visibility of Burdens and Benefits of Public Revenue and Expenditure in OECD Countries with Two and Three Levels of Territorial Government (162)
• A measurement to analyze the relative change in the Absolute Parity of Power Purchase: An application to the European Union (163)
• Regional productivity differences in the European Union - Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence (171)
• Estimation of Gender wage Discrimination in the Portuguese labour market (184)
• Regional economic cycles and the emergence of sheltered economies in the periphery of the EU (189)
• Determinants of Manufacturing Concentration Patterns in Mercosur (191)
• Symmetric and Asymmetric Equilibria in a Spatial Duopoly (194)
• Explaining the distribution of manufacturing productivity in the EU regions (197)
• A framework for sustainable port planning in inland ports: a multistakeholder approach (201)
• An Assessment of Developing the Human Capital in Supply Chains Across Borders and Cultures in U.S. and Russia and CIS Government Programs (204)
• Determination of Agents and Their Strategies in River Basin according to Game Theory (205)
• Portugal & Internet (207)
• Matching in thin labour markets: panel data evidence from Finland, 1991-2002 (208)
• Spatial autocorrelation in employment-output relation (209)
• Relocation of government activities as a regional policy measure (212)
• Ownership Structure and Innovation: Is There a Real Link? (213)
• Who move to rural areas? Micro Evidence from Finland (214)
• Beyond core-periphery relationship in the EC cooperation (218)
• Property taxation as incentive for cost control: Empirical evidence for utility services in Norway (219)
• Spatial ICT Clusters in Sweden – An Empirical Method to Identify a Necessary Condition for Existence (222)
• A model of car ownership and use incorporating quality choice and ownership of multiple cars (228)
• Concentration, Coagglomeration and Spillovers: The Geography of New Market Firms in Germany (230)
• On the Determinants of Cross Border Co-operation of Austrian Firms with Central and Eastern European Partners (238)
• Where does success in local development come from? (240)
• The Diffusion of Modern technologies in Namibia (246)
• Local production and innovation systems in the state of São Paulo, Brazil (251)
• Measuring Market Damage of Automobile Related Carbon Tax by Dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model (257)
• Comparing Sectoral Investment and Employment Specialisation of EU Regions: A Spatial Econometric Analysis (259)
• Regional Variation in New Firm Formation in Turkey: Cross-Section and Panel Data Evidence (263)
• Institutional Factors in the Economic growth of Mexico (264)
• Regional Patterns and Determinants of the Success of New Firms in Western Germany (270)
• On Space-Time Changes of Hedonic Prices for Single Family Homes (275)
• Performance of Local Employment Systems (280)
• Innovation and Employment Growth in Industrial Clusters: Evidence from Aeronautical Firms in Germany (284)
• Changes in Japan’s inter-regional business linkage structure (287)
• Can the Market Be Used to Preserve Land? The Case for Transfer of Development Rights (292)
• A panel technique for the analysis of technology convergence: The case of the Italian regions (293)
• Regional strategies in Baltic countries (302)
• The existent relation between development and entrepreneurial strategies – a preliminary analysis (305)
• The role of competences on patenting activities of learning regions : an empirical study on French data (309)
• Determinants of Manufacturing Location in EU Accession Countries (310)
• The innovative role of public utilities: a strategy for local development (316)
• The effects of regional scientific opportunities in science-technology flows: Evidence from scientific literature cited in firms' patent data (321)
• The Recent Location of Foreign R&D Activities by Large MNCs in the European Regions. The Role of Different Sources of Spillovers (322)
• Regional growth and local convergence: Evidence for Portugal (323)
• Innovation Diffusion and the Evolution of Regional Disparities (327)
• The Geography of Innovativeness - New product announcements in The Netherlands (334)
• Distribution Network Configuration Considering Inventory Cost (343)
• Regional development assessment using parametric and non-parametric ranking methods: A comparative analysis of Slovenia and Croatia (350)
• Tax dividend evaluation of major urban renewal projects (351)
• Agglomeration economies in the Finnish manufacturing sector (361)
• Municipal Wastewater Treatment: a Comparison of the Performance of Public Sector and Contract Operated Plants (381)
• Linking Indigenous Social Capital to a Global Economy (384)
• Leader Firms in the Dutch Maritime Cluster (395)
• Local Determinants of Crime: Distinguishing Between Resident and Non-resident Offenders (396)
• The Economic Impact of the High-Speed Train on Urban Regions (397)
• The Role of Universities in Learning Regions (398)
• An alternative method to the scrambled Halton sequence for removing correlation between standard Halton sequences in high dimensions (406)
• Regional wage differentials - does distance matter? (418)
• The Institutional Determinants of Bilateral Trade Patterns (421)
• Aging and Feminization: Implications for Future Travel Demands of the Elderly (426)
• Regional Externalities in the Dynamic System of Three Regions (430)
• GIS and Network Analysis (433)
• Congestion Charging at Airports: Dealing with an Inherent Complexity (434)
• The Regional Development Agency in the Knowledge Economy: Boundary Crossing for Innovation Systems (452)
• Regional convergence in the European Union (1985-1999). A spatial dynamic panel analysis (455)
• Patterns of Fluctuation of Employment in the European Union: National Cycles and Effects of Tertiarization (459)
• The relationship between needs and instruments of innovation policy in different regions: the Matrix INT - Instruments and Needs of Technology (467)
• Coping in Nordic Peripheries - on the Spatial Production of Societies (471)
• How does income inequality influence international migration? (472)
• An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns in Europe (473)
• A model of Russian local public finance and social asset divestiture (477)
• The development of Russian peripheral region. Ecological and geopolitical problems of the region of Caucasian spa resorts (482)
• Location of the labour force in an interregional general equilibrium model – an applied case (484)
• The Student City. Strategic Planning for Student Communities in EU Cities (485)
• Multiculturalism in the city: managing diversity (488)
• The Impact of Demographic and Individual Heterogeneity on Unemployment Duration: A Regional Study (496)
• A knowledge hub to enhance the learning processes of an industrial cluster (498)
• Centre–periphery model explaining the regional development of the informational and transitional society (503)
• Regional price levels in Germany (511)
• Spatial Patterns of Crime in Israel: Investigating the Effects of Inter-urban Inequality and Proximity (512)
• Revisiting the Role of Common Labeling in a Context of Asymmetric Information: Critique and Extensions (513)
• Regional income convergence and inequality in boom and bust. Results from micro data in Finland 1971-2000, and especially during the 1990s (514)
• A comparative study of typologies for rural areas in Europe (515)
• Inequality Measures Applied to the Diffusion of Mobile Communications within the European Union (516)
• Bridging and Bonding Social Capital: which type is good for economic growth? (517)
• Social capital and regional economic growth (518)
• Legislation is not enough: What it takes to create an Environmental Urban Management Initiative in Egypt (520)
• Principles of Neural Spatial Interaction Modeling (526)
• An Overview of the Productive Structure of the Amazon Region: Using the Eyes of an Interregional Input-Output System (534)
• Fertile soil for Structural Funds? A panel data analysis of the conditional effectiveness of European cohesion policy (538)
• The Empirical Economic Growth Literature: Robustness, Significance and Size (540)